Event Horizon could have used a decent script, but the director, Paul Anderson, is a stylist to watch.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
It has been said that no one sees a movie for the sets, yet an exception might be made here for Horizon's visually staggering production design -- truly an event itself. The story, though, is such a transparent variation on the Alien ouevre that your tolerance may hinge on how much you can shrug this off. [15Aug1997 Pg03.D]Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Director Paul Anderson, whose last film was "Mortal Kombat," well knows how to build suspense and increase tension. But counterbalancing all of that is Event Horizon's position as a sci-fi splatter film, intent on drenching the screen in blood and gore whenever possible. [15Aug1997 Pg 16]Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Half of what's going on is never explained, and what is explained, doesn't make much sense. And that's just the beginning of the problems encountered in director Paul Anderson's ("Mortal Kombat") poorly executed endeavor.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
This unwieldy amalgam of science fiction and horror, directed by Paul Anderson, douses almost every scene with glitzy special effects in a futile attempt to cover up a paucity of thought.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The screenplay creates a sense of foreboding and afterboding, but no actual boding.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
The movie is very loud. It is pointlessly loud, arbitrarily loud, assaultively loud.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Scott Rosenberg
Trying to figure out just what went wrong in the creation of a movie as dreadful as this may ultimately be as futile as trying to ascertain what might lie on the "other side" of a black hole.Read Full Review »
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